Is this low-grade, what do you think?

It looks as if the low-grade scam artist at The Macon Telegraph which is owned by McClatchy Newspapers is still at work. Any scam will do in a crisis. 


On September 29, 2011 on The Telegraphs News Talk Central, a morning show which according to them is “powered by The Telegraph”, Charles E. Richardson took the opportunity to bash Joe Wilson. Joe Wilson if you recall is the Representative from the state of South Carolina, which reminded Obama he was lying during his “State of the Union address.”  A “break in decorum” as Richardson described it. 


Richardson who is the Editorial Page Editor of The Telegraph appeared to be comfortable with the fact that Obama was lying to the United States Congress and the people of this great Nation. It is indisputable that this administration has told more lies than any administration since the Nixon era.


The fact that The Telegraph refuses to cover the lies, deceit, dishonesty and the scams, which come from this administration, does not mean they did not occur. Richardson and The Telegraph can deny them, lie about them and ignore them, but they can not change the facts.


When a caller called in to point out reasonable people may have considered it a “break in decorum” when Obama told the lie. Richardson, who we sometimes refer to as Low-Grade raised his hackles and brought up George Bush and his state of the union address with the famous “16 words.” 


For the people who do not recall the “16 words”, they are from Bush’s 2003 State of the Union Address. You can see that address here.


The 16 words were “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”


Reasonable people who are familiar with Richardson sometimes come to the conclusion that he is consumed with bigotry and it over rides all sense of reason.  Apparently, this is what happened here. As usual Kenny Burgamy, the ex-banker and enabler did his job, he sat there and said not a word, but then perhaps he did not know the truth or maybe he was just earning his money.


Most reasonable people consider a “lie” a falsehood that the individual knows is a falsehood or a “lie” when they are telling it. And there is that falsehood or “lie’ by omission which The Telegraph has specialized in of late.


According to the web site FactCheck.Org, A project of the 
Annenberg Public Policy Center. Bush “May Have Been Wrong But He Wasn’t Lying.”


They tell us that “Two intelligence investigations show Bush had plenty of reason to believe what he said in his 2003 State of the Union Address.” And “But what he said – that Iraq sought uranium – is just what both British and US intelligence were telling him at the time. So Bush may indeed have been misinformed, but that's not the same as lying.” You can see it here. 


In addition we can check the Wikipedia web site for the Butler Report. It can be found here.    


To demonstrate the difference in The Telegraph’s coverage of the news since the 2008 election we can consider the following:


On Friday, October 29, 2004 on pages 7,8,9 and 10 of The Telegraph we find the following:

Page 7

“U.S works to import 5 million flu shot”

The first sentence starts with “The Bush administration”

“FBI widens probe into Halliburton”

In the first sentence we find “…the way the Bush Administration handed out billions of dollars in contracts…”

Page 8 

This page consist of three separate articles

(1)

“U.N. says it warned of explosives’ vulnerability”

This article covered about one-quarter of one page. The article was also pointed at the Bush administration.

(2)

“Scientists estimate 100,000 Iraqis may have died in war”

We are informed in the article that “The scientists who wrote the report concede that the data they based their projections on were of ‘limited precision’…. The article goes on to tell us that “Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children,” they said. Then they use what appears to be some honesty in the article when they tell us that “The report was released jus days before the U.S. Presidential election, and the lead researcher said he wanted it that way.”

(3)

“U.S. to give Iraq custody of foreign militants”

Apparently this story is to cast the Bush administration and the interim Iraqi government as untrustworthy. We are told that “Despite claims by the Bush administration and Allawi’s government…” 

Page 9

There is one article on this page, the Bush administration escapes specific mention however violence by implication is there. 

The article is titled “Armed men abduct three U.N. election workers in Kabul” With all that was going on in the world at that time they find the abduction of “…three U.N. election workers in Kabul” worth a quarter page of print.

Page 10

We again find the Bush Administration escapes direct implication, but the violence is there. The title of the article is “Fresh violence erupts in Thailand’s south”

This is just an example, there was a constant barrage of this type of material, day in and day out.

When you look at their coverage of events during this time period and then look at how they avoid this type of coverage now. It is so obvious what they are doing. The bigotry of The Telegraph shines through loud and clear.


There is no way the people of middle Georgia are going to get the information they need to make an informed decision approaching the 2012 elections. If they follow the pattern they have in the past the worst is yet to come.


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Have a nice day.